Content Standards: Ohio Academic Content Standard Describe methods authors use to influence readers’ feelings and attitudes.
ISTE NETS-S Creativity and innovation Communication and collaboration Research and information fluency
Critical thinking, problem-solving, & decision-making Digital citizenship Technology operations and concepts
Instructional objective(s): The students will read and summarize a science related story and give examples of how the author’s feelings are shown in the story.
ACTION
Before-class preparation: The students will be asked during their library time to select one book that is an informational science book.
During class
Time
Instructional Activities
Materials & Resources
Three 45 minute sessions.
The students will read their book prior to coming to class. They will log onto our Moodle online classroom and create a wiki page under the subheadings of natural science, space, and earth science. The students will post a page explaining what the book was about and examples of what the author’s purpose was for writing the story. When the students have posted their pages they are to visit 5 other student’s wiki pages and agree or disagree with their examples.
Library, Computer Lab, Moodle software.
MONITOR
Ongoing assessment(s): I will monitor the postings online to see if they are on task and communicating about their findings.I will note which students do not complete assignments. Accommodations and extensions: Students who are struggling navigating or posting can have a peer help them in the lab.If a student has completed both topics and would like to make an additional trade with another student they may or they can find a new topic on their own. Backup plan: If for some reason that the computer lab is not available the students would complete their summaries or responses by writing them in their notebooks to be put onto their Moodle site at a different time.
EVALUATE AND EXTEND
Lesson reflections and notes: This lesson is an extension of our main idea and supporting details lesson.I want the students to go beyond just posting a discussion and start to evaluate each other’s work and comment on them in a respectful way.This lesson will aid them with their next assignment of digital story telling because they will understand why author’s write stories and how to be very clear in their own writing.
Main Idea, Supporting Details
Reading/Language Arts
Ohio Academic Content Standard
Describe methods authors use to influence readers’ feelings and attitudes.
Creativity and innovation
Communication and collaboration
Research and information fluency
Critical thinking, problem-solving, & decision-making
Digital citizenship
Technology operations and concepts
The students will read and summarize a science related story and give examples of how the author’s feelings are shown in the story.
Before-class preparation:
The students will be asked during their library time to select one book that is an informational science book.
Three 45 minute sessions.
The students will post a page explaining what the book was about and examples of what the author’s purpose was for writing the story.
When the students have posted their pages they are to visit 5 other student’s wiki pages and agree or disagree with their examples.
Ongoing assessment(s): I will monitor the postings online to see if they are on task and communicating about their findings. I will note which students do not complete assignments.
Accommodations and extensions:
Students who are struggling navigating or posting can have a peer help them in the lab. If a student has completed both topics and would like to make an additional trade with another student they may or they can find a new topic on their own.
Backup plan:
If for some reason that the computer lab is not available the students would complete their summaries or responses by writing them in their notebooks to be put onto their Moodle site at a different time.
This lesson is an extension of our main idea and supporting details lesson. I want the students to go beyond just posting a discussion and start to evaluate each other’s work and comment on them in a respectful way. This lesson will aid them with their next assignment of digital story telling because they will understand why author’s write stories and how to be very clear in their own writing.